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Workers’ Films of the Thirties (2 Parts) (1981 Film, Video)

Director

Victoria Wegg-Prosser

Producer

Victoria Wegg-Prosser

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This compilation derives exclusively from the archive of the Film and Photo League and is an attempt to present a digest of that archive. Part 1 deals with the origins of the league, the connections with the...

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Sanders of the River (1935 Film)

Director

Zoltan Korda

Producer

Alexander Korda

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. Presents a selectively constructed but positive view of British colonial administration in Africa and of the nature and capabilities of the African. The tone and theme of the film are set by...

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Ladykillers, The (1955 Film)

Director

Alexander Mackendrick

Producer

Michael Balcon; Seth Holt

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. Mrs Louisa Wilberforce, a widow living alone in a Victorian house near St Pancras station, rents her upstairs room to a mysterious ‘Professor Marcus’, who meets with four oddly assorted...

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Before Hindsight (1977 Film)

Director

Elizabeth Taylor Mead

Producer

Jonathan Lewis

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939...

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Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

Director

Vsevolod I Pudovkin

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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Went the Day Well? (1942)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

Michael Balcon

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies; History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

Feature film from a story by Graham Greene. The village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops dsguised as British soldiers as part of Hitler’s plan for the invasion of Britain. Music by William...

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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £19.99

CAMERAMAN illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema spanning nine decades of moving...

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Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (3 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Kevin Brownlow; Dan Carter; David Gill; Michael Winterbottom

Producer

Kevin Brownlow; David Gill

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 120 min., 1998 sale: £44.95 (inclusive) retail (set)

Series telling the story of early film-making in Europe. Narrator: Kenneth Branagh.

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History Through the Newsreel: The 1930s (4 Parts) (1976 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

1: Introduces the four-part series with a short summary of the social context of the British newsreels, including photographs of contemporary cinemas and figures for cinema attendances, followed by a...

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Put That Light out! (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 70 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

First programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1940-42. Eyewitness accounts by ordinary British citizens tell how they coped with everyday life against a backdrop of air raid...

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